Youtube Video Contest

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YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

What is this video really saying about people and YouTube? Do you agree ot disagree?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

This video is from The Onion satire site.

Plants in Action!

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Bee on a flower

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Entertainment or Animal Cruelty?

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The 5 W’s & H

Answer the questions below based on your viewing of the video.

  • Who?
  • What?
  • Where?
  • When?
  • Why?
  • How?

Use your answers to decide if this video is fair or biased and what you believe about whether bullfighting is sport or animal cruelty.

Facebook in Real Life

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How does online behaviour differ from behaviour in the ‘real world’?

What are some of the social consequences when it comes to behaviour?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

The Twouble With Twitters

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Pro – Con – Neutral

  1. Why would people be in favor of using Twitter?
  2. Why would people be against it?
  3. What would be a neutral position?  What is your position?

or look for the humor:

What makes this animation funny?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Dealing with Telemarketers

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(Suitable for older students only)

Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with unwanted phone calls?

Imagine that you work in a call centre and are just doing your job, how do you think you would react?

Does everybody get the job they want or enjoy?  What are some reasons people might do a job they do not enjoy?

Hubble Deep Field: Most Important Image Ever Taken

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See-Think-Wonder

  1. What do you see?
  2. What do you think about that?
  3. What does it make you wonder?

 

stereotyping

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Seeing Themes & Stereotypes

  1. What is the main issue or feeling?
  2. Search for that theme in Tag Galaxy or Clusty
  3. What images or subtopics match those from your main theme?
  4. What are stereotypes related to the theme?

WW1 veteran describes his landing at Gallipoli

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[quicktime]https://media.australianbiography.gov.au/hazlitt/media_nh/ex3_med.mov[/quicktime]

Jack Hazlitt lied about his age to enlist in WW1.
This is a segment of the last interview he gave about his experiences before he died aged 96.

1. What caught your attention?

2. What do you think about that?

3. What do you wonder?

21st Century Learning

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Headlines

Write a headline that captures the most important point